Starc, who was snapped up for USD 1.8 million by Kolkata Knight Riders ahead of IPL 2018, filed a lawsuit against his insurers in April last year, after they disputed the timing of his injury — a right tibial bone fracture — during the South Africa series that kept him out of the IPL.

According to Sydney Morning Herald, mediation talks between Andrew Fraser, Starc’s manager, and the lawyers of the insurers broke down when Fox Sports’ footage was furnished of Starc bowling in the second Test. Consequently, a civil trial that was scheduled in March was postponed to June, and further now to August.

Starc claimed that his injury troubles began in the second Test itself, when he experienced “calf issues on the uneven foot marks of a worn wicket”, which triggered a tibial fracture during the third Test.